The Kingdom of Bohemia enjoyed a particularly prosperous period in the second half of the 14th century. King Charles IV, who was also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, helped to turn the region into a prosperous centre of European development. Prague, the capital city, benefited from this favourable period and the city developed and embellished itself with new monuments. Such dynamism was bound to encourage artistic activity and attract brilliant personalities from all over the continent.
It was against this backdrop that a painter appeared, who remains anonymous to this day, but whose work reveals a singular power: for want of a name, he was conventionally referred to as the "Master of Vissy Brod", after the small town where his most ambitious work was located.
This altarpiece, now dismantled (and kept in the National Gallery in Prague), is a spectacular testimony to the quality of the work of this unknown master, but also to the artistic links that existed between Bohemia, Italy, Germany and France at the time.
A way of lifting the veil on a little-known, yet brilliant and prolific phase of medieval European art.
It was against this backdrop that a painter appeared, who remains anonymous to this day, but whose work reveals a singular power: for want of a name, he was conventionally referred to as the "Master of Vissy Brod", after the small town where his most ambitious work was located.
This altarpiece, now dismantled (and kept in the National Gallery in Prague), is a spectacular testimony to the quality of the work of this unknown master, but also to the artistic links that existed between Bohemia, Italy, Germany and France at the time.
A way of lifting the veil on a little-known, yet brilliant and prolific phase of medieval European art.
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